When evaluating equity, researchers often look at the “achievement gap.” Privileging
knowledge and skills as primary outcomes of science education misses other, more subtle …

Student attitudes toward science and content achievements were examined in three
secondary Biology I classrooms using an environmentally place-based curriculum as well as …

Substantial recent focus has been placed upon the competitiveness of American students in
increasingly global economies and entrepreneurial enterprises. As concerns center on …

Informed by a cultural understanding of human sense-making, the mathematical identities of
Grades 7–12 learners, teachers, and conventional curricula are explored. Due to a clash of …

Students have been largely ignored in discussions about how best to teach science, and
many students feel the curriculum is detached from their lives and interests. This article …

This chapter's cultural view on quality science teaching affords perspectives on school
science that represent a plurality of aims, allows a reconceptualization of school science …

How can teachers enact a curriculum that is responsive to students and emergent from them
when teachers are under enormous constraints to cover specific course content and to …

Currently, participatory evaluation processes using multicriteria decision aids are barely
used in the context of contaminated sites, even though they are a powerful tool for …

The current study is aimed at analyzing how selected personal and contextual factors
influence academic performance through their impact on imagination, and comparing …

This special issue of the Journal of Research in Science Teaching seeks to explore
conceptualizations of culture that address contemporary challenges in science education …